David has experience in research on projects related to clean energy and recycling. He also has a five-year freelance writing experience. Besides, he is a lover of tech and new developments in technology.

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Production of electricity from waste has the potential of providing up to 83.8 TeraWatt hours, which is about 20% of the electricity needed in Africa by 2025. This is according to a study co-authored by the European Commission Joint Research Centre. However, this requires stringent waste management policies to be put in place, and today Africa lacks the adequate infrastructure needed to install these environmentally friendly methods.

Precision, smart agriculture, Ag 3.0, any name is fine. The Internet of Things is beginning to change agricultural practices, from monitoting farms, collecting relevant farm data, to empowering farmers receive this information and take necessary timely decisions. When used together with weather data from sattellite and other systems, alongside smartphones, cloud platforms and satellite, the result is cost reduction and better yields.

Many people are definitely beginning to ask if the climate pact reached in Paris last month will yield any benefits especially for the worst sufferers of climate change - the developing countries. Though there are many gaps, it will see more cleanleaps launched especially in the area of clean energy and smart climate measures, but much more efforts are needed to reach the targeted benefits.

Environmental concerns have always been thought of as the realm of NGOs, governments and philanthropists, so how can local entreprenuership contribute? Environmental problems are usually as a result of a disconnect between the societal, business and environmental needs. Therefore a system that links the three from the word go is to be applauded today. This is the basis of the eco-preneurship idea, which seeks to support and promote businesses that are designed with environmental conciousness.

The upcoming COP21 in Paris is an important one for Africa as the continent who suffers the most from climate change, and for the world who wants to replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is expected that issues such as climate financing, information-sharing climate-smart agriculture and technology transfer will dominate the talks.